SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 19th of September   WELCOME! SAINT PILEUS AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS St Bertin Abbey, looted by the atheist French Revolution, a movement that destroyed itself from within a few years afterwards  (S.S. Pileus et Soc. M.M.) Saints Pileus (Peleus) and Pilus [Nilus], two bishops, Elias [Elijah], a presbyter, as well as Patermuthius [Pa-Termuthes] and 150 others, some Egyptian, some Palestinian Christians, were martyred about A.D. 310 during the Diocletian persecution (VI. 21-23). (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints,  Volume  4, Augsburg, 1875, p. 924) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saints Pileus, Pilus, Elias, and Patermuthius may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of t...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 19th of September WELCOME! SAINT PELEUS AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS Today, we also commemorate Saint Peleus and Companions . The Roman Martyrology states:  "In Palestine, the holy martyrs Peleus, Nilus, and Elias, bishops in Egypt, who were, with many others of the clergy, consumed by fire for the sake of Christ during the persecution of Diocletian." PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saints Peleus, Nilus, and Elias may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen. ⬅️ Fr Butler's information about these holy martyrs ➡️ Fr Stadler's information

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 26th of September WELCOME! SAINT NILUS THE YOUNGER, ABBOT   Saint Nilus was of Grecian extraction, and born at Rossana in Calabria, in 910. From his infancy he was fervent in religious duties, and in the practice of all virtues, and made considerable progress both in profane and sacred learning. He engaged in wedlock with a view to the sanctification of his soul by the faithful discharge of the duties of that holy state, and was careful in it to nourish and improve the sentiments of virtue in his heart by frequent hours of holy retirement. These he devoted to religious meditation, reading, and prayer, lest the seeds of piety should be choked amidst the cares and business of the world. After the death of his wife, his love of solitude moved him to take sanctuary in his beloved harbour of a monastery, from the embarrassments of a public life, and the glittering temptations of the world. He therefore retired about...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 12th of November WELCOME!   SAINT NILUS THE ELDER, ANCHORET, FATHER OF THE CHURCH, CONFESSOR Nobility, dignities, honours, and riches, have not given such great lustre to the name of St Nilus, as the contempt of those things for the love of Christ.  UNKNOWN TO THE WORLD In his retreat, such was his care to live unknown to the world, that he has concealed from us the very manner of life which he led in the desert, and all we know of him is reduced to certain general circumstances.  He seems to have been a native of Ancyra in Galatia, says Orsi: it appears by his writings that he had a regular education, in which piety and religion had always the ascendant.  It is uncertain at what time of life he had St Chrysostom for master; but it must have been at Antioch, whither the reputation of that holy doctor must have drawn him, perhaps when he resigned his government in order to retire from the world.  H...